Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 65 83
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 -27
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,970 1,931 2,631
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 3.93% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 4.38% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,410 965 1,881
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.65%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,263 44,137 73,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.84% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 51,228 24,998 49,763
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 25 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -23 1,726 £75,000 +3.45% 718
UK excluding London -43 1,061 £65,000 -7.14% 406
Work from Home -19 887 £66,000 -5.71% 342
London -17 769 £85,000 +3.03% 413
North of England -34 368 £69,310 -0.99% 130
South East -2 285 £65,000 -7.14% 134
North West -50 199 £75,000 +7.14% 71
South West -44 122 £57,500 -8.00% 38
Midlands -62 100 £67,500 +3.85% 47
North East +21 89 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Yorkshire -24 80 £60,000 -16.66% 35
West Midlands -37 73 £78,750 +12.50% 32
Wales -13 57 £70,000 +34.62% 14
Northern Ireland -23 56 £72,500 +45.00% 18
East of England -20 43 £60,100 -3.84% 12
Scotland -60 32 £60,000 -23.87% 17
East Midlands -65 26 £64,000 +6.67% 15
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 4

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 35 (1.78%) Confluence
2 27 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.81%) CMS
3 16 (0.81%) IIS
4 15 (0.76%) Apache
5 10 (0.51%) Camunda
6 9 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.41%) WordPress
8 7 (0.36%) JBoss
8 7 (0.36%) nginx
8 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.25%) Drupal
11 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.15%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.15%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Kentico
Applications
1 11 (0.56%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.10%) Shopify
6 1 (0.051%) Eikon
6 1 (0.051%) RMDS
6 1 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,017 (51.62%) AWS
2 851 (43.20%) Azure
3 331 (16.80%) GCP
4 264 (13.40%) Serverless
5 240 (12.18%) GitHub
6 185 (9.39%) SaaS
7 171 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
8 131 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
9 111 (5.63%) Amazon S3
10 109 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
11 100 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
12 99 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 90 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
14 80 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
15 67 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
16 65 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
17 64 (3.25%) Azure AKS
18 51 (2.59%) PaaS
19 49 (2.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.25%) Broadband
2 24 (1.22%) Network Security
3 15 (0.76%) MQTT
4 13 (0.66%) DMARC
5 11 (0.56%) DNS
6 8 (0.41%) AMQP
6 8 (0.41%) Firewall
6 8 (0.41%) Internet
6 8 (0.41%) VPN
7 7 (0.36%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.30%) DHCP
8 6 (0.30%) RFID
8 6 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.25%) HTTP
10 4 (0.20%) LTE
11 3 (0.15%) Modbus
12 1 (0.051%) NAS
12 1 (0.051%) PSTN
12 1 (0.051%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (15.43%) MongoDB
2 222 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (10.15%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 159 (8.07%) Elasticsearch
6 126 (6.40%) MySQL
7 108 (5.48%) SQL Server
8 91 (4.62%) Relational Database
9 64 (3.25%) Redis
10 52 (2.64%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.62%) Big Data
13 21 (1.07%) RDBMS
14 17 (0.86%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.61%) Db2
15 12 (0.61%) DTS
15 12 (0.61%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.56%) Data Lake
17 10 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
18 8 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 245 (12.44%) Git
2 185 (9.39%) GitLab
3 160 (8.12%) Jenkins
4 59 (2.99%) JIRA
5 58 (2.94%) JUnit
6 57 (2.89%) TeamCity
7 43 (2.18%) Cucumber
8 34 (1.73%) Cypress.io
8 34 (1.73%) Mockito
9 31 (1.57%) Claude Code
10 26 (1.32%) Maven
11 22 (1.12%) CircleCI
11 22 (1.12%) Selenium
12 19 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 18 (0.91%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.66%) JMeter
14 13 (0.66%) Postman
14 13 (0.66%) Spock
15 12 (0.61%) REST Assured
15 12 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 475 (24.11%) Finance
2 357 (18.12%) Social Skills
3 199 (10.10%) Public Sector
4 167 (8.48%) Banking
5 122 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 122 (6.19%) Law
6 115 (5.84%) Retail
7 114 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
8 73 (3.71%) Legal
9 56 (2.84%) Financial Institution
10 44 (2.23%) Marketing
11 43 (2.18%) Back Office
12 30 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (1.42%) Legal Technology
14 24 (1.22%) Aerospace
15 22 (1.12%) Advertising
16 20 (1.02%) Games
17 19 (0.96%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.91%) Front Office
19 14 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 748 (37.97%) Developer
2 472 (23.96%) Senior
3 356 (18.07%) Software Engineer
4 303 (15.38%) Lead
5 263 (13.35%) Architect
6 206 (10.46%) .NET Developer
7 176 (8.93%) Senior Developer
8 152 (7.72%) Full-Stack Developer
9 147 (7.46%) Java Developer
10 132 (6.70%) Java Engineer
11 115 (5.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 112 (5.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 101 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
14 93 (4.72%) Principal Engineer
15 82 (4.16%) Software Developer
16 72 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.60%) Lead Developer
18 61 (3.10%) Lead Software Engineer
19 54 (2.74%) Technical Leader
20 53 (2.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 535 (27.16%) .NET
2 427 (21.68%) React
3 418 (21.22%) Node.js
4 327 (16.60%) Spring
5 304 (15.43%) Spring Boot
6 288 (14.62%) RESTful
7 261 (13.25%) REST
8 247 (12.54%) Kafka
9 234 (11.88%) ASP.NET
10 214 (10.86%) .NET Core
11 210 (10.66%) AngularJS
12 207 (10.51%) Vue
13 193 (9.80%) ASP.NET Core
14 111 (5.63%) Blazor
15 107 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
16 99 (5.03%) .NET Framework
17 95 (4.82%) HTML
18 89 (4.52%) CSS
19 81 (4.11%) gRPC
20 75 (3.81%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 588 (29.85%) Cloud Native
2 346 (17.56%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (6.85%) Product Ownership
4 102 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
5 87 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
6 62 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 56 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
8 47 (2.39%) Video\Live Streaming
9 45 (2.28%) Over-the-Top Content
10 39 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.88%) AI Agents
12 31 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 30 (1.52%) e-Learning
14 26 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (1.27%) Algorithms
15 25 (1.27%) Data Structures
16 24 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
17 23 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
18 19 (0.96%) Mobile App
19 18 (0.91%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 125 (6.35%) Linux
2 47 (2.39%) Windows
3 21 (1.07%) Unix
4 18 (0.91%) CentOS
4 18 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.25%) AIX
7 4 (0.20%) Debian
7 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.10%) Android
8 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,037 (52.64%) CI/CD
2 938 (47.61%) Agile
3 704 (35.74%) Software Engineering
4 699 (35.48%) DevOps
5 562 (28.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 456 (23.15%) Mentoring
7 432 (21.93%) Containerisation
8 415 (21.07%) Event-Driven
9 411 (20.86%) AI
10 405 (20.56%) Test Automation
11 391 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 376 (19.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 360 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
14 279 (14.16%) Scrum
15 260 (13.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 260 (13.20%) Technical Leadership
16 241 (12.23%) TDD
17 222 (11.27%) Clean Code
18 215 (10.91%) Coaching
19 212 (10.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 643 (32.64%) Java
2 548 (27.82%) C#
3 487 (24.72%) SQL
4 476 (24.16%) Python
5 445 (22.59%) JavaScript
6 363 (18.43%) TypeScript
7 122 (6.19%) Go
8 54 (2.74%) Scala
9 49 (2.49%) Ruby
10 46 (2.34%) C++
11 42 (2.13%) PHP
12 40 (2.03%) Bash
13 27 (1.37%) PowerShell
14 26 (1.32%) Bicep
15 25 (1.27%) Rust
16 22 (1.12%) C
17 16 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.81%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.61%) Groovy
19 11 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 261 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 177 (8.98%) SC Cleared
3 175 (8.88%) Degree
4 81 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 63 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (1.12%) CISSP
9 19 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 18 (0.91%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (0.51%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.51%) PhD
13 9 (0.46%) MBA
14 8 (0.41%) CISM
15 5 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 4 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (10.25%) QA
2 75 (3.81%) Accessibility
3 40 (2.03%) GDPR
4 39 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.62%) WCAG
6 22 (1.12%) SOC 2
7 21 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.96%) NIST
9 16 (0.81%) NCSC
10 15 (0.76%) GRC
11 10 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.41%) Data Quality
12 8 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.25%) PSD2
15 5 (0.25%) SEPA
16 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 570 (28.93%) Docker
2 27 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.25%) NDS
5 4 (0.20%) Firmware
6 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.051%) KVM
Systems Management
1 597 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 347 (17.61%) Terraform
3 109 (5.53%) Ansible
4 97 (4.92%) Grafana
5 61 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.27%) Argo
7 18 (0.91%) Puppet
8 17 (0.86%) Kibana
9 14 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.66%) Cilium
11 8 (0.41%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.20%) Packer
13 4 (0.20%) Podman
14 2 (0.10%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.10%) MIIS
14 2 (0.10%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.10%) Rancher
15 1 (0.051%) logstash
15 1 (0.051%) Nagios
Vendors
1 314 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 86 (4.37%) Google
3 65 (3.30%) Oracle
4 45 (2.28%) Typelevel
5 38 (1.93%) OpenAI
6 32 (1.62%) Splunk
7 26 (1.32%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.17%) IBM
9 21 (1.07%) AppDynamics
10 20 (1.02%) Databricks
11 13 (0.66%) Adobe
11 13 (0.66%) Okta
11 13 (0.66%) OneLogin
11 13 (0.66%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.61%) ForgeRock
12 12 (0.61%) Red Hat
12 12 (0.61%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.51%) SAP
13 10 (0.51%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.36%) OpenText